Mr. Tsounis spoke with emotion about the place where his grandparents and parents grew up. He revealed that his father told him not to forget Platanos
The new US Ambassador to Greece, Mr. George Tsouniscomes from Platano of Nafpaktia and from a young age he came on vacation to both Platanos and Nafpaktos and loved this whole area.
Thus, from the first days of his new position, he considered it his duty and duty to visit Platanos, where he met his villagers and friends and attended the Trisagio of his grandfathers, which was performed by the archimandrite Fr. Gabriel Plakas.
On Saturday, June 4, he went down to Nafpaktos, visited the City Hall and met with the mayor and the Municipal Council. The new ambassador spoke with emotion about the place where his grandparents and parents grew up. He revealed that his father told him not to forget Platanos while expressed the view that “we must keep our roots and promised to visit the area often.”
The ambassador also visited him Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and Agios Vlasios Hierotheos, at the Offices of the Holy Metropolis. They had for a long time a constructive and friendly discussion about mutual friends, about the importance of tradition in the modern data of our time, about the importance of Of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the section of the Orthodox Churches, on the Greek philotimos, on the publishing activity of the metropolitan, who has written about 100 books in 25 languages, 25 book titles is in English, about American society and the freedoms that distinguish it, etc.
His Eminence told him about the Metropolitan of Nafpaktia and Evrytania Christoforos Alexandropoulos, who came from Platanos and about Saint Kallinikos Metropolitan of Edessa, whose father came from Platanos. He gave him an icon of Saint Kallinikos hagiographed in stone, which made a special impression on him, as well as his books in Greek and English.
When he left, he promised that he would come to Nafpaktos and Platanos often “like at home”.
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